The collective knowledge in this thread is astounding! I am takign baby steps. Right now, something is eating my sunflower leaves and also the leaves on my newly-planted Eastern redbud tree. We think it is earwigs as we do have them around here. So, I bought some Diatomaceous Earth, but it doesn't have instructions about applying on or near plants, just getting it into the crevasses, etc. and just as dire warnings as the chemical poison stuff, it seems! The only thing I can think to do is sprinkle it around the base of each plant in the evening after all watering is done, then again the next evening. We don't see any bugs on them during the day, so assume it is night time when they come out to feed. Does that sound logical? And, any suggestions on what else we could do? I read somewhere, if you roll up a wet newspaper, the earwigs will gather in it overnight, then you can dispose of them, in the paper, the next morning, but that would be really unhandy for where I have the sunflowers and I don't know if it would keep them from eating away, anyway. Thanks!